"Slow as a sea turtle on land, the 208-foot-high [63.4-meter-high] Cape Hatteras Lighthouse was rolled to its new home, a half mile [0.8 kilometers] from the beach, at a top speed of one foot [30.5 centimeters] a minute. Survivor of a major earthquake and some 40 hurricanes, the 130-year-old beacon not only arrived without a crack—it got there two weeks early."
—Text from "Tall Order," May 2000, National Geographic magazine
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Tall Order," May 2000, National Geographic magazine)
